Main description:

This issue of Cardiology Clinics, edited by Dr. Amal Mattu and Dr. John Field, focuses Emergency Cardiology. Topics include, but are not limited to: Evaluation of Chest Pain and Acute Coronary Syndromes; Evolving Electrocardiographic Indications for Emergent Reperfusion; Cardiac biomarkers in emergency care; Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction; Cardiogenic Shock, Acute Dyspnea and Decompensated Heart Failure; Evolving Strategies for Management of Cardiac Arrest; Multidisciplinary management post-cardiac arrest; Acute Myopericardial Syndromes; Acute Valvular Heart Disease; Ventricular Arrhythmias; Atrial Fibrillation, A New Face of Cardiac Emergencies: HIV-Related Cardiac Disease; Cardiovascular Emergencies in Pregnancy, and Blunt Cardiac Trauma.

Contents:

Cardiology Clinics

Emergency Cardiology: From ED to CCU

Preface: Emergency Cardiac Care: Rowing Together

Evaluation of Chest Pain and Acute Coronary Syndromes

Evolving Electrocardiographic Indications for Emergent Reperfusion

Cardiac Biomarkers in Emergency Care

Non-ST-Segment Acute Coronary Syndromes

Cardiogenic Shock

Acute Dyspnea and Decompensated Heart Failure

Evolving Strategies in Cardiac Arrest Management

Multidisciplinary Management of the Post-Cardiac Arrest Patient

Acute Myopericardial Syndromes

Acute Valvular Heart Disease

Ventricular Arrhythmias

Acute Management of Atrial Fibrillation: From Emergency Department to Cardiac Care Unit

A New Face of Cardiac Emergencies: Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Related Cardiac Disease

Cardiovascular Emergencies in Pregnancy

Blunt Cardiac Trauma Review